After the divorce, the crazy CEO knocked on his ex-wife's door every night.

In the midst of this silence, Shen Xuan had already gone up to the second floor and entered the room where the old lady was.

When Shen Xuan went upstairs, he found that the elderly lady was already resting quietly in bed under the care of several loyal servants.

She stood by the old lady's bedside for a while, her heart filled with conflict. She didn't know whether she should leave this warm and quiet space now, and she was also unsure whether the man downstairs had really left this house full of memories.

However, she soon felt a slight discomfort in her abdomen, which made her distracted and think about this sudden and puzzling physical reaction. Was it because she was too hungry that she was experiencing stomach pain?

Or is it just simple nausea and a desire to vomit?

In short, this inexplicable feeling of unease forced her to temporarily shift her thoughts away from the situation.

To alleviate the discomfort, Shen Xuan picked up a sweet and sour plum and put it in her mouth, letting it slowly dissolve and release its unique sour yet slightly sweet taste. Only when this special taste began to make her mouth and esophagus feel much more comfortable did she finally decide to go downstairs to find something to eat.

When she arrived at the living room downstairs, she didn't see anyone as she expected. But in a casual glance, Shen Xuan noticed a figure sitting at a small dining table next to her.

It was the man who had just given her quite a bit of trouble.

He was quietly enjoying the exquisite dishes in front of him.

From this angle, Li Siyuan's cold and upright profile and the lines formed by his entire body outline appear very hard, giving people an invisible sense of heavy pressure.

Nevertheless, out of instinctive concern for the little life inside her, Shen Xuan gritted her teeth and slowly moved closer to the dining table, then sat down in the empty seat next to him.

Li Siyuan sat there with a tense face and no expression, without saying a word from beginning to end.

After stealing a few glances at him cautiously, Shen Xuan, sitting opposite him, felt an increasingly strange and extremely subtle atmosphere between the two of them.

To her, every time he got angry, it was like he was carrying a huge, destructive energy that she felt powerless to resist.

Therefore, she dared not do anything in front of him that might displease him, for fear of accidentally triggering an unpredictable storm.

When the servants saw her arrive, they quickly stepped forward and offered her food and chopsticks.

Shen Xuan glanced at the neatly arranged food on the plate, and immediately caught a fishy smell.

The taste instantly irritated her stomach, making her feel very uncomfortable.

Immediately afterwards, an uncontrollable feeling of nausea struck, forcing her to immediately clutch her stomach and turn away from the table.

All of this happened under his watchful eye, and with those disgruntled eyes, she quickly rushed towards the restroom.

Seeing this sudden scene, his face showed obvious displeasure, even anger.

How dare she show such disgust in front of me?

Does she really feel such utter disgust towards him?

"Miss, are you alright?"

Seeing her fleeing in a panic, the staff member who was with her hurriedly stepped forward and asked her with concern.

Gently wiping away any remaining smudges from the corner of her mouth, Shen Xuan, whose face appeared somewhat pale, replied, "I'm fine, it's just my old problem acting up again. A little rest will do the trick, don't worry."

After speaking, she slowly walked towards the sofa and asked the servant behind her, "Could you cook me a bowl of plain porridge? I can't eat anything too greasy right now."

"Understood, Miss. Please rest well while I prepare the porridge."

Upon hearing the order, the servant immediately left the room and went to the kitchen to get busy.

Shen Xuan massaged her aching forehead, looking quite unwell.

Then, she took out a small jar of plum candy from her bag, opened the lid, put one in her mouth, and chewed it slowly to try to relieve the discomfort in her stomach. At the same time, she leaned back on the soft sofa to rest, feeling exhausted.

"So you have a stomach ailment?"

After a long silence, Li Siyuan, who was sitting to the side, finally spoke up and asked the question that had been on his mind, but his tone was still cold and devoid of warmth.

When she heard his voice, she slowly opened her tightly closed eyes and met his gaze.

Her face was filled with helplessness and bitterness. She sighed and said, "Everyone encounters various health problems, isn't that normal? Besides, you decided to freeze all my bank accounts without my consent! It's already a miracle that I'm still alive just because of a minor stomach ailment. Aren't you even a little disappointed?"

The man sitting opposite her stared intently at the woman's slightly sickly face with a probing look in his eyes, his expression becoming unusually serious and solemn.

"Isn't someone taking care of you? How did you manage to develop stomach problems?"

Shen Xuan's face turned extremely pale instantly. She couldn't believe that Li Siyuan would humiliate her in this way, as if those baseless slanders against her had become facts in his eyes. This blatant insult was unbearable for her.

“You don’t have to be so sarcastic, Li Siyuan. If I really wanted to find a backer, I wouldn’t have given you the chance to use my grandmother to blackmail me into coming back.”

Her words carried a hint of helplessness and determination as she tried to defend herself.

She knew very well that she was making compromises for her family, not because she depended on a particular man.

He snorted and his gaze fell on her backpack, where he saw an unopened box of sour plums.

Bending down, he noticed the folic acid bottle sitting separately to the side. He reached out and gripped it tightly, asking, "You think you can cure your stomach problems with this? Who gave you these to take?"

"Does this have anything to do with you?"

Shen Xuan countered with a question, her tone revealing a hint of weariness.

She didn't believe Li Siyuan had the right to know the answer to this question.

"It really has nothing to do with me. After all, you've been with so many men. Even if you were really pregnant, you probably wouldn't even know who the child's biological father is, right?"

These words were full of irony and stung Shen Xuan's heart.

These words completely enraged Shen Xuan. Her anger surged like a burst dam, causing her to jump up from the sofa and snatch the bottle of medicine.

"The doctor has already said that I will never be able to have my own children in this lifetime, so please stop making wild guesses about this. If I am really pregnant, it can only be considered a miracle."

After saying that, tears welled up in her eyes but she stubbornly refused to let them fall. Then, she angrily picked up her backpack, quickly went upstairs, and slammed the bedroom door shut, leaving only a loud 'bang' that echoed throughout the room.